>That way everybody can be happy - the guitarist wanting to go back a >few seconds and the podcast listener wanting to skip a multi-minute >block of commercials.
No, actually my point is that I don't know an arbitrary time to jump forward to. I don't listen to podcasts twice; I listen to podcasts to discover new music, mainly ambient/electronic music - often long podcasts with long tracks, a bit of chat, adverts, etc. Being able to control the speed when skipping forward is useful. This was discussed - should it be a manual action to speed up the acceleration, or automatic - the longer you hold the FWD button down, the faster the speed for seeking forwards. I'm not sure how it ended up, nor how it works with Transporter/Boom knobs (I think it's meant to accelerate depending how fast the knob is turned or how long it is turned). When I was beta testing, I didn't notice any acceleration, which made long jumps painful (litterally). With the current functionality, none of those mechanisms help if I want to skip to the next interesting part of the track. The only way to do it is to jump forward a little bit, wait for playback to restart at the new position, listen to see if the sound is different (eg. when wanting to skip to the next part of a podcast), nope, so jump ahead a little bit more..., wait for playback to restart, nope too far, skip back a bit, wait for playback to restart... With the current functionality, I think the track is divided up; 1 display pixel will equal n seconds depending how long the track is (up to some maximum limit)? So a short song may have 1 pixel = 1 second, whereas a long podcast could have 1 pixel = 20 seconds. So it may not be possible to jump forward less than 20 seconds for some tracks, and it may take a long time to scroll through a long track. The best way is to have some audio feedback whilst moving the play position forwards/backwards. ... or some form of "skip to next significant change in sound" automation. ... or instead of a solid/clear progress bar to set playback position, show some representation of the track in terms of sound (eg. volume level over time, oscillator, peak meter). Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
